单词 | overplay |
释义 | overplay I. transitive verb 1. a. < overplay a comic role > < overplayed every crescendo > b. < overplay those features of human attention that are peripheral — Psychological Review > < tends to overplay the intellectual achievement — Times Literary Supplement > < the most overplayed newspaper story of 1954 — Time > < the present text overplays its points of strength — A.R.Turquette > c. < a theatrical cliché that's overplayed — Ethel Merman > 2. < overplaying their hands and tending to be greedy — Sunday Independent (Dublin) > 3. intransitive verb < her tendency to overplay — R.A.Hague > II. 1. 2. < overplay of highly sensational stories — F.L.Mott > |
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